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If I remember correctly, Le Figaro (the newspaper hosting the poll) is a right wing newspaper. It isn't necessarily the opinion of the majority in France. Heck, their president, Hollande, has made a promise to try to have gay marriage legalized in 2013.

It's still interfering with data and statistics, and reddit is predominantly white, male, and American.

Also, asking questions on the Internet is liable to get you completely wonky answers because the Internet is completely unrepresentative of the population at late (unless you have a good, thorough screening process).

I just voted "oui", and before you ask no I'm not French (I was born in Holland so I'm close-ish) - but who cares, these polls aren't scientific so I don't think we have to be too concerned about "interfering with data and statistics", seriously? BTw it's 84% "Non" so I don't think our voting has much impact?

Non scholarly polls are meaningless. It may be trumpeted by the right or left wing depending on the result, but they're meaningless to politicians and people who use facts and evidence.
Recent scholarly polls have shown France to be about 56 44 for against in terms of marriage equality.
tl;dr: ignoring the poll is both more effective and more likely to keep you happy. It carries about as much meaning as any of the polls hacked by anonymous.

Considering how they feel about Arab women on wearing those head scarves (forgot the name sorry), I'm not surprised. iirc they didn't want Arab women doing that as it was offensive or something, I'm guessing the similar rational here maybe?